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Patricia · 04-08-2010, 08:38 AM

You would be surprised at how poor the editing is in some academic texts.

I was reading a biography of the Countess De Martel De Janville, better known as the novelist, Gyp. She is described as "flaunting the law." This is from Oxford University Press.

(Willa Z Silverman: The Notorious Life of Gyp: Right-wing Anarchist in Fin-de-Siècle France, Oxford University Press, 1995.)

04-08-2010, 08:38 AM	#21
Patricia Reader Posts: 11,504 Karma: 8720163 Join Date: May 2007 Location: South Wales, UK Device: Sony PRS-500, PRS-505, Asus EEEpc 4G	You would be surprised at how poor the editing is in some academic texts. I was reading a biography of the Countess De Martel De Janville, better known as the novelist, Gyp. She is described as "flaunting the law." This is from Oxford University Press. (Willa Z Silverman: The Notorious Life of Gyp: Right-wing Anarchist in Fin-de-Siècle France, Oxford University Press, 1995.)